Cycles for Change in St. Paul, MN implements a Bike Library program; it's less like a short-time "bike share" program and more of a program providing bicycles for long-term (seasonal/6-month) use for low-income community members. We put together a Best Practices for Bike Libraries manual http://www.cyclesforchange.org/community-partners-bike-library#bestpractices- feel free to take a look! (click on the "best practices" link on that webpage)
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 3:27 PM, < thethinktank-request@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 11:28:11 -0500 From: Todd Spinner tspinner@gmail.com To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Subject: [TheThinkTank] Bike Share and Bike Libraries Message-ID: <CAEXmag= BOPok6jKpevYSo8V-zjeVX3ubRwiZsxc+AGmMrvdZEQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Our coop has been approached by several organizations wanting to obtain a number of bikes (from a few bikes to a fleet of similar machines) to start bike shares or bike libraries.
Do any of you have any experience working with this type of request? Has anyone supplied bikes for this type of purpose?
It is likely that it is beyond the scope of our mission and our supply of volunteer help for such an endeavor. We were considering putting together a list of recommendations for groups wanting to compile a bike share/library system. Do any of you have this type of document or handout and can share with us?
Thanks,
Todd
-- Todd Spinner The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign www.thebikeproject.org
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